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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@laPoste.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:03:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213030346.GF25499@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076604650.31270.20.camel@ulysse.olympe.o2t>

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> But that's not a reason not to fix the core problem - I don't want to
> spent hours fixing filenames next time someone comes up with a new
> encoding. Please put valid encoding info somewhere or declare filenames
> are utf-8 od utf-16 only - changing user locale should not corrupt old
> data.

If you attach encoding to names for a whole filesystem, you will get
really unpleasant bugs including security holes because some names
won't be writable, so the fs will either return error codes when those
names are used, or silently alter the names.

-- Jamie


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 16:50 JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.) Nicolas Mailhot
2004-02-12 18:12 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13  3:03 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-02-13 10:07   ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13 18:06   ` Nicolas Mailhot
2004-02-13 18:15     ` viro
2004-02-13 18:24       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-13 18:31         ` viro
2004-02-13 20:27           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13 18:31       ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-13 18:50         ` JFS default behavior Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-13 22:39         ` JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.) Robin Rosenberg
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2004-02-16 17:26                       ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-02-16 17:58                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-16 19:48                           ` Pascal Schmidt
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2004-02-15 14:26               ` Pascal Schmidt
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2004-02-16 15:44                   ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-02-16 15:59                     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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2004-02-13 17:57 ` Nicolas Mailhot
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2004-02-13 10:26 ` Robin Rosenberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-09 11:58 UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc Nico Schottelius
2004-02-11  6:39 ` Tim Connors
2004-02-11 16:35   ` JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.) Dave Kleikamp
2004-02-12  0:45     ` Andy Isaacson
2004-02-12  1:19       ` Tim Connors
2004-02-12  3:54       ` jw schultz
2004-02-12 12:03         ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12  8:54       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-12 15:55         ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12 16:17           ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 16:40             ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12 17:16               ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 18:06                 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12 19:08                   ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 19:39                     ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12 21:13                       ` John Bradford
2004-02-12 22:29                         ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12 22:50                           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-13  2:58                           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13  9:48                             ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13  3:15                         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-14 15:24                     ` Eduard Bloch
2004-02-13  0:17             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13  0:38           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13  1:16             ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13  1:23               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13  1:46                 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13  2:29               ` viro
2004-02-13  3:23                 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-14 15:09                   ` Eduard Bloch
2004-02-15  1:01                     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-16 14:03                       ` Eduard Bloch
2004-02-16 14:28                         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-16 19:22                           ` Eduard Bloch
2004-02-16 21:44                             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-16 15:18                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-16 15:32                           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-16 19:13                             ` Eduard Bloch
2004-02-16 15:46                           ` John Bradford
2004-02-16 15:48                             ` viro
2004-02-16 16:43                               ` John Bradford
2004-02-16 16:25                             ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-16 15:27                         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-16 15:44                         ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13 10:03                 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-13 10:22                   ` vda
2004-02-13 10:29                     ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-02-12 13:28       ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-02-12 15:26       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-12 15:41         ` Dave Kleikamp

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